[PD] vanilla replacement for polygate~ ?

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 22/03/13 22:35, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> ________________________________
>> From: Patrick Pagano <bigswift at ufl.edu>
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>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:57 PM
>> Subject: [PD] vanilla replacement for polygate~ ?
>>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone had an idea for a Vanilla replacement for
>      polygate~, which is listed as a switch between multiple signal
>      inputs. I would like to make a patch for IPAD/MOBmuPLat that has
>      this in the patch but i am wondering what a good vanilla substitute
>      might be for it?
>
>
> You can't.  Or-- you can, but it will be a cheap imitation that either
> a) always has some maximum number of inlets, or b) uses nonlocal
> receive names to make up for the fact that you cannot dynamically
> instantiate inlets inside an abstraction because the [loadbang]

It would be relatively easy instead if one could dynamically set the 
name for [send~] (like for [receive~]) in vanilla.

Lorenzo.

> inside will only fire after the connections in the parent patch have
> finished.  (I.e., you'll get broken connections if you save the patch
> and open it again.)
>
>
> You need [initbang] to create the [inlet]s before the parent tries to
> make the connections.  The [initbang] object is in Pd-extended and
> Pd-l2ork, but not Pd-Vanilla.  There is no process or plan to get it in to
> Pd-Vanilla, so if you are bound to using Pd Vanilla only you are
> quite simply stuck.
>
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>>
>>
>> polygate~ switch between multiple signal inputs
>> variable fade rate both linear & equal power
>>
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